The Finance Committee of the Jacksonville City Council met on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, from 1:00 PM to 3:31 PM in the Council Chamber. Chair Joe Carlucci presided, with eight members present: Nick Howland, Raul Arias, Rory Diamond, Will Lahnen, Ju'Coby Pittman, Ron Salem, and Kevin Carrico. The committee reviewed numerous ordinances and resolutions, heard public comments, and issued subpoenas for the Special Investigatory Committee on JEA matters.
All right. Looks like we do have a quorum. So we're gonna go ahead and call the meeting to order. It's one o'clock Tuesday, May 19th. We're gonna go ahead and start our finance committee meeting with introductions to the left. Brittany Norris for the administration. Colleen Hamsey, Council Research. Mary Stepopoulos, Office of General Counsel. Bill Peterson, Council Auditor's Office. Kim Taylor, Council Auditor. Good afternoon, Rory Diamond District 13, the beaches. Ron Salem, group two at large. Will Lane District 3. Joe Carlucci, District 5. Good afternoon, Raw Aries, District 11. Hello everybody, Kevin Carico, District 4. Matt Harluch at large, group four, for a little while, maybe. Good afternoon, Jimmy Peluso, just visiting. Nick Howland at large, group three. I'm a finance committee member, but I am sitting all the way over here because I have a little bit of a cough every so often. Everyone who went on the Austin chamber trip last week came back with a little bit of the crud. I don't know if you did, Kevin, but I did. So I don't wanna cough on anybody. So I'm self uh isolating over in the far end of the S. Thanks. Okay, 397. Okay. All right, committee members. Uh we are gonna go ahead and go through the agenda. We've got uh some items that we're moving around to accommodate some of our folks in the audience, and then we have a couple of public comment cards that Miss Rebecca is. It's okay, we got time, you don't need to rush. Um, taking up, so let's see. Okay, do you need to speak? Okay, you're recognized. Thank you, Chair. I've asked Mr. Peterson to review our hurricane account to determine where we are in terms of collecting dollars from the feds. Since we've not had a hurricane in around 18 months, I think it's a good time to see where that uh where that fund relies. He's indicated the last meeting in June, he'll provide a report to the finance committee. Just wanted to let everybody know that. Thank you, Chair. All right, thank you. We also wanna welcome Finance Committee member, Ms. Jacoby Pittman, and we also have Councilmember Rockman Johnson uh that has just joined us. So, okay, so as we were saying, we're gonna go through the agenda. We have a presentation today by Miss Taylor, then we will go to our public comment cards, then we'll get into the agenda. Um so let's just look through this real quick and I can kind of give everyone a heads up of what we're gonna be doing. So items number uh one, two, three, four, five are all deferred, and then we are gonna go to page sixteen, item number twenty-four, twenty twenty-six, three thirty-seven. That will be taken up first. Let me make sure we're there.